CONSISTENCY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 289, 4 December 1872, Page 2

CONSISTENCY.

■ To the, : ■ : / vSpt^fe^^ refer.;sp/ yojdr ' ; < '(a'fctiielfeir^m^^ .fercnce to thie.laok'of the: colonizing spirit among ,

the young men of Nelson, s and in which you urged upon them to emulate their fathers in the enterprizeand pluck they evidenced in subduing the wilderness of Richmond and' the Waimeas, and to the want of such enterprize (and not the want of roads) beiDg the fault of, the wilderness of the Buller not being similarly subdued. For continuation of new 3 see fourth page.

One ipf ihe parsagesT more distinctly remember j is to the;effsct that.it was the place of the; young men of the 'province to /push into the~ interior . without roads, and form settlements therein, before the Government ; would be justified^ ia . making roads for them. c In another of these articles of 'yours I am refer/ring to, you attempt to persuade tbe " dawdling young men of the Waimeas " that it is their duty and business to settle the country, in spite of such obstacles as"; bad road?, and no roads at all," an expression" I* believe you to have the honor of coining I stoutly opposed all these articles at the time they were written, and raised quite an editorial storm in the Mail by so doing, and, in fact, the whole tenor of your writing at this time went to show that it was the fault of the people evincing the colonising spirit, and not the want of roads, that was keeping Nelson back. Lately, however, you have given up the old love and taken to quite a new one, so much so, that you are; not only daily eating your own words, but are swallowing those former articles I have referred to wholesale, and in so doing you forcibly remind me of tbe following quotation from " Sesame and Lillies." Speaking of false religious teaching, the author says " the last and fatallest sign of it is that ' puffiing np *, * * Your converted children who teach their parents; your converted convicts who teach .honest men ; your converted dunces, who haviog lived in" continuous stupefaction half their lives, suddenly awaking to the fact of there being a God, fancy themselves,- therefore, his peculiar people and messengers." It appears to me that jou must have suddenly awakened from the stupefaction you have so long been in, and bave all at once Decome impressed with tbe fact that there is a Buller, and that it is highly important that something better than very bad pack tracks . should.be made as speedily as possible; and you now seem to fancy yourself the great advocate and messenger of these facts. But one thing you have entirely forgotten, viz : — To regret your former false teaching, and intimate your conversion. That you are not yet converted to tbe truth, and are still by your articles hindering the great and important work of opening up the country, I will attempt to prove in a future letter on the Nelson-Railway-and-Tramway-Talking Nuisance. James Grove. Foxhill, Nov. 30, 1872.

Sometimes clever people overshoot the mark. The Greymouth Star says: — -"We V learn that a gentleman who was up here from Hokitika was put down without his consent for a Melbourne cup sweep in that town. Without his consent the f "drawing took place, when the representative of the non-consenting one drew for him the Quack. He was avked, .subsequently, without being informed of his luck, if he were in the sweep, to which he replied that he had given nobody any abthority to put his name down, and repudiated the transaction. Whether the horse was sold again or not, we have not heard, but if so, we should suppose that this gentleman's quacking will be both tloud and piteous." * The career of one but lately branded as a thief bas possibly come to a sudden and tragic ending. The man known as German Jerry, who lately stole a considerable sum of money from the house of a countryman at the Landing, and decamped into the bush with the evident intention of making tracks either for PictoD or Nelson, upon the chance of getting clear away hy some sailing craft, has been, since bis departure, persistently sought for by the police and others interested in his capture. On Thursday last intimation of his whereabouts was obtained, and on being discovered between the Lyell and the Matakitaki, he made off, and was chased down to the river, where he took boat and attempted to row across. He was closely followed by constable Chichester in another boat, and seeing the chance of escape useless, German Jerry suddenly plunged overboard and attempted to swim ashore. The current was too strong for him, and he was carried over the Eochfort Falls, ■where all traces of him were lost. Whether he was drowned or succeeded in afterwards getting ashore .is not yet exactly known. It was thought at first that there was no possible chance of his escaping death, but telegrams from Beefton, received yesterday, report that it is rumored he is still alive.-— Westport , Times. Writing upon the progress of settlement in the back country in Australia, the Argus says :— Along the telegraph route to Palmerston, large tracts of first-class grazing land have been discovered, and we may be sure that not only will they be. speedily occupied, but that exploring" parties, taking them as the basis of their operations, will be thrown out right and left, and soon add millions of acres to the meat-producing capabilities- of the Australian continent. - Even now, . fat oxen and sheep in large numbers are poured V.intp the Melbourne markets . from" A very distant sources of supply> Upwards "of 13,000 fat; sheep were sold afc the corporation yards a short time ago, at an average of lss; Id, which had been on the road/: between, sey en and eight months. -The* bou spot' where V Burke ~a^ r ;US'fet,^ on the : t shbres !■! of v the; • ; Carpentaria, ': and v;'fatten^d;in 'fhe lEiyerin^ -country^ "alsarput;. ywje ,'; ; may be sure'*that year by yearj as setttlement goes on, we ..shall -;see the; number of ; ? animalei#»wardedqop $be^great Vsouthera